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Teresa Rodríguez, the leader of Podemos in Andalusia, has charged 8,640 euros only in diets and as a regional parliamentarian during the last eight months and without having gone to work for a single day. That is the time he has remained, first, on medical leave and, then, by maternity until this week he has returned to activity. Rodriguez herself has been the one who questioned these payments "that she should not charge" and has included them among what she calls "privileges" of the political class against which her training has repeatedly proved contrary. The last, on account of the diets of the coordinator of Podemos during his discharge.

Rodriguez already asked at the beginning of his maternity leave not to charge these allowances, which parliamentarians receive to, in theory, pay for their travel and cover their accommodation costs to go to Parliament, but the response he obtained from the chamber table is that "you couldn't not charge" this money. Upon termination, the leader of Podemos has again claimed to return these amounts.

They are, he said, "bonuses in b " that parliamentarians perceive not only during periods of low, but also during the months in which the autonomous chamber has no activity, such as January or the month of August. Although the Parliament is closed on those dates, the deputies continue to charge the money with which they are supposed to pay for their travel and their lodging in the Andalusian capital.

These diets "we receive them in 'b' the deputies without any against invoice , nobody asks us for any invoice or ticket", he insisted questioning, in addition, the way in which the use of these funds is controlled even when there is parliamentary activity.

The offensive of Podemos and, very particularly of Teresa Rodríguez, against these "bonuses" began already in the last legislature. In June 2017, the party registered an initiative in Parliament to limit the privileges enjoyed by Andalusian deputies, such as the daily allowance of up to 2,500 euros charged by the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups without the need to justify any expenses and add to his monthly salary that is around 3,000 euros.

Among the prerogatives of the deputies are also those known as layoffs , which are the monthly payments that Parliament pays to the deputies who cease, depending on the years they have occupied a seat.

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